US firm Cox Media accused of listening to private conversations to help push targeted ads (youtube.com)
First time there's proof, although smart people have known. Normal people make a joke about what they're just too lazy to want to ever do anything about. They would rely on their government figures to protect them, but it seems so far government has preferred comfortable deals with tech giants to working for their citizens.
‘They actively listen in real time to private conversations, and they do so using open microphones on a smart phone, a smart TV, or any smart technologies.’
They say it is legal, because when you buy a phone you opt in to using the voice commands of the phone ‘Google do this’ or ‘Siri do that’ and that means you have to have the phone listening all the time. People who don't use GoogleAndroid or Apple don't have this privacy invasion, though, but that's less than 1% of people.
Again, with ‘Google do this’ people will calmly give up their entire privacy and that of anyone they talk to or message in return for not having to tap their phone and instead just say a command. Again, it would be only government who could protect privacy, because citizens will not vote for this tradeoff.
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